Cork North Central

Election liveblog

I'm really looking forward to the election count tomorrow and Sunday. I've covered counts before, but as a purely print reporter. This will be the first one I am tweeting and live blogging and I'm looking forward to the utter confusion of it all! You can follow my tweets on @deshocks (I'll be mainly [...]

2011-02-25T14:07:43+00:00 February 25th, 2011|Categories: Opinion|Tags: Blog, Cork, Cork Independent, Cork North Central, Cork South Central, Election 2011, General Election, Ireland, newspapers, Politics, print media, PRSTV, radio, social media, Twitter|

What are the odds?

With only 6 women out of 67 candidates running throughout Cork, the odds are certainly not stacking up at 50-50. As Áine Kerr wrote in yesterday’s Irish Times, Mná na hÉireann are losing ground. But that’s all set to change, if a new group set up in Cork before Christmas has its way. The [...]

2011-02-18T10:44:33+00:00 February 18th, 2011|Categories: Opinion|Tags: #ge11, activism, Cork, Cork City Council, Cork East, Cork North Central, Cork South Central, Cork South West, Deirdre Clune, Election 2011, equality, Fine Gael, Kathleen Lynch, Mary Robinson, women|